PM’s advisor: Postponing the elections is an idea falls within the framework of speculation and wishes

politics
  • 29-05-2021, 19:03
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    Baghdad - INA 

    Advisor to the Prime Minister for Elections Affairs, Abdul-Hussein Al-Hindawi, confirmed today, Saturday, that the talk about postponing the early elections from their scheduled date on October 10 falls within the framework of speculation and wishes, while warning against depriving a certain group of the right to vote in the elections.
    Al-Hindawi told the Iraqi News Agency (INA), that "any talk about postponing the elections falls within the framework of speculation and wishes by some, or it is a well-known type of pre-emptive electoral propaganda," noting that "the Supreme Committee for Election Security continues its preparations."
     He added, "The Electoral Commission, in turn, is currently racing against time to complete its basic preparations, and complete its operations schedule towards launching electoral campaigns in preparation for the polling day," declaring "its success in updating the biometric electoral card for about one million voters born in 2001, 2002 and 2003."
    Al-Kadhimi’s advisor called on the commission to take all the urgent and exceptional measures necessary to complete the obtaining of approximately one and a half million new voters within the same births on their electoral card, stressing that “all the owners of these births are constitutionally qualified to participate in the upcoming elections, but they do not yet possess any kind of cards.” elections, including the short-term, which threatens to deprive them.